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I built a full-stack app, how should I host it? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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So basically I built a backend with some working endpoint and I built a React Frontend. I can run both things locally and I hosted the page on Cloudflare pages which is working. But now I’m wondering if that’s a good idea?

I have never done this before and I’m wondering if it’s secure enough to host the backend on some server and allow a CORS header to let the Frontend generate requests?

The alternative would be to host Frontend and backend on a VPS and then route my domain that I bought on Cloudflare there, but then I’m thinking that in case my Frontend is insecure somehow the whole instance would be compromised, no?

I hope this is the right platform to ask as I’m pretty new here.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

There's definitely security advantages to running things across multiple instances: if one gets hacked, the others are unaffected.

The networking should be pretty simple for what you're doing. A few things just change to like 127.0.0.1 to something like 172.31.X.X or whatever IPs your VPC ends up using.

It looks like you're doing very well, I've seen big companies with less security than that.

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